by Sean Axmaker | Oct 31, 2013 | Home Viewing
Dr. Moreau: What is the law? Sayer of the Law: Not to spill blood, that is the law. Are we not men? “Are we not men?” That question is at the heart of the 1932 Island of Lost Souls, the first adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel and (for all the changes from...
by Don Kaye | Oct 31, 2013 | Features, Staff Picks
It’s Halloween! Which means everyone should go home tonight and load up on the scary movies (the scarier the better, is what we say – we like our horror straight, and rarely with a dash of comedy). But how many of those movies are actually set on Halloween? That,...
by Bryan Reesman | Oct 30, 2013 | Features
Director James Wan loves old school chills and thrills, and he has used them for maximum impact in films like Dead Silence, Insidious and The Conjuring, which arrived recently on Blu-ray and DVD. He’s so good at it he doesn’t need large budgets or crazy...
by Sean Axmaker | Oct 29, 2013 | Home Viewing
The timing of Byzantium (IFC, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital, VOD), arriving two days before Halloween, is not coincidence, but Neil Jordan’s take on the vampire genre (from a play by Moira Buffin) is not a traditional horror film. There is blood, of course, and there is...
by Danny Miller | Oct 28, 2013 | Editor's Picks, Interviews
When I read all the press about Randy Moore’s Escape from Tomorrow after it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, I remember thinking how amazing it sounded and I was disappointed that I’d never get a chance to see it. Surely, a horror film shot...
